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In the first category of hedonist delights is of course food. Thus immediately, in the first part of the exhibition, in that which is going to attract the greatest amount of collective energy, we present Marc Powell (Food Hacking) with a completely scientised laboratory of a kitchen in which ingredients are combined according to affinities at the molecular level. If you let yourself go, at the level of your own stomach, you will realise that it really is possible to imagine the formation of differently understood collective bodies − units unconstrained by a given programme and location, which found new abilities for association in the act of, for example, collective cooking and food hacking. The antipode to Powell’s disciplined science is the work of Kal Spelletich, whose humorous robotic sculpture will chace and supervise you, at the same time luring you with whiskey. You will also have the chance to eat a hot dog or two, which Kal will prepare in his barbecue session.

With these two hedonists from San Francisco you will certainly be able to tuck in, but dessert is provided by British artist Demitrios Kargotis with his interactive ice cream machine, which produces the goods only if you are gloomy enough. After dessert, those who feel good with a drink will get a robotic cocktail. Both of the robot waiters come straight from this year’s Roboexotica, Viennese festival devoted to robots designed for just such purposes. If food and drink don’t do it for you, we will provide you the pleasure of inhaling various gases and legal drugs. An adrenaline snort of caffeine will get you going. Pure oxygen in the Oxygen Bar, created on the model of Los Angeles originals of the nineties, will clean out your system.

Dalibor Martinis, in different versions of himself, will wittily write out your messages in code. The already mentioned automatic ice cream machine has an amusing trait, rewarding the mournful. Relaxation, of the sensoric kind, at skin-level, is given by the interactive massage interface of Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson, who will take the visitors on in a videogame. Cutaneous stimulation, of a sexual kind, is the business of the Stahl Stenslie project World Ripple. The artist thinks of the world as an invisible social sculpture that is created in an unpredictable rhythm and character within its coordinates. With its optical invisibility the work creates a world of haptic and sensory encounter among beings on Earth, promising exchanges that open up totally new areas of communicology and interaction His second work at the exhibition entitled Artgasm takes up the topic of male post-sexuality, providing an instant orgasm to the bold. The work of Katarina Petrović and Milan Nenezić God Gives You Pleasure is concerned with sexuality in close connection with religion. The festival also provides you with uncommon contemporary kisses that unmask the discriminatory attitude to the skin, but only if you are brave enough to take part in the happening at the opening. Even the festival T-shirts, if you buy them, will provide you with stimulation, depending on what you need − upping or downing. Both of the festival works that deal with sound address it extremely corporeally, in a synaesthetic manner.

As part of the Markus Decker-Dietmar Offenhuber interactive installation visitors control the sound by the movement of their bodies, while Satoshi Morita lets sound travel via spine and bones. In other words, his sound doesn’t enter the body through the ears. Works with a markedly social dimension are the production of an English team called Material Beliefs, which deals with design in laboratories, devising both functionally and in appearance, at the biotech level, the future of our living settings. The work of Sonja Vuk is dedicated to the problems of the minority, to the hedonism of people who suffer from eating disorders and whom society places in the category of the mentally ill. The work of Marnix de Nijs is highly critically inclined. His installation, which lets you into the exhibition on condition that come up to the minimum happiness level, problematises the society of control.

















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